Rebecca Tope

Simmy is four months pregnant, working partly from home and partly from her Windermere florist shop when her husband Christopher asks her to take flowers to Eleanor Padgett. Eleanor has helped him in his auction house, as she is an expert in antique textiles....

A few days into their stay, a pile of human bones is discovered at the base of an uprooted tree. The locals all have their theories about their identity and rumours abound....

Granny's behaviour is a little peculiar, but so too are the Montgomerys' instructions to keep her trapped in the house....

Nestled in the hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret....

As undertaker Drew Slocombe drove to Greta Simmonds’....

It’s Christmas, and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea’s daughter Jessica has come to stay, much to her stepdaughter Stephanie’s delight. But then things take a turn for the worse....

Thea Osborne sets off to Frampton Mansell with confidence....

Thea Osborne has just lost her beloved father and retreats to her next housesitting assignment in Lower Slaughter to deal with her grief.....

Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments, and with troubles in her personal life, Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission....

After an eventful year, Persimmon "Simmy" Brown is adjusting to life in Windermere, running her florist shop and trying to put her tragic past behind her....

Thea Osborne and her canine companion Hepzie travel to the isolated village of Snowshill for their next assignment....

When Thea Osborne agrees at the last minute to house-sit for Oliver Meadows, she expects a few days of peace....

Thea Osborne, Cotswold house-sitter with an infamous reputation for getting mixed up in crime, is determined to avoid trouble this time....

As Christmas draws nearer, Simmy Henderson is invited to a party in Glenridding at the heart of the Lake District. However, the festivities are overshadowed by two alarming discoveries: a man's body in the beck above the village, and a vulnerable newborn baby, apparently abandoned by its mother.

When irascible Farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, it seems like an accident initially - despite the fact that he was widely disliked. Only his daughter, Lilah, is prepared to defend his memory....

Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown's baby has arrived, and her forthcoming nuptials are only a short month away. But when a former acquaintance of her fiancé's reminds him of an undertaking that he hasn't fulfilled, their lives soon take a sinister turn....

In the wake of a series of unfortunate experiences house-sitting in the Cotswolds....

Thea is tired of having to entertain Drew's children during the summer holidays, so she accepts a commission to watch over a house in Barnsley. On her first day there, she rescues a fugitive woman she finds hiding under some bushes....

Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to be nearer her parents....

Thea Slocombe, nee Osborne, is trying to settle into normal, domestic life. But in the course of an attempt to make friends locally, she finds the body of a close neighbour....